Suburb of the Week: Bell Acres (Pittsburgh, Butler: apartment complex, house, camp)

[eschaton]

We're only up to the Bs, and we're already on our second small forgotten borough in the Sewickly area!

Bell Acres is a small borough with a population of 1,400 sandwiched up against the Butler County Line. It's still mostly comprised of undeveloped land, with most of the hilltops being wooded. Besides one or two streets along Camp Meeting road, it doesn't appear that it was built out on the subdivision level. The housing stock varies dramatically from fairly modest to some ridiculous mansions which are spillover from Sewickley Heights.

There is no business district, but there are a few industrial properties, and a bar, scattered along Sewickley Creek (which appears to be the poorer side of the borough). The Sewickley Heights Golf Club is actually located almost entirely within Bell Acres.

That's all I got.

[Pitt Chick]

I have cousin in Bell Acres. There really is not much there, and that is how my relatives like it.

Those uber-mansions are ridiculous.

[Moby Hick]

The outside of that mansion looks like an apartment complex in Columbus.

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by Moby Hick

The outside of that mansion looks like an apartment complex in Columbus.

In Columbus the streets are paved with gold, and all the apartment complexes are actually mansions!

[bradjl2009]

Isn't the largest house in all of Pennsylvania in Bell Acres?

[Katarina Witt]

If you're going alphabetically, Beaver Falls should be next. I know, not a typical "suburb", but it is part of the MSA. Oh, I guess actually what should be up next is Beaver. Closer to Pittsburgh, and probably has a lot of workers in Allegheny County.

[WhoIsStanwix?]

I think to limit this from taking 5 years to complete, these threads are limited to Allegheny County.

[Pitt Chick]

Originally Posted by Katarina Witt

If you're going alphabetically, Beaver Falls should be next. I know, not a typical "suburb", but it is part of the MSA. Oh, I guess actually what should be up next is Beaver. Closer to Pittsburgh, and probably has a lot of workers in Allegheny County.

Meh.
I am from that area, and I see no reason to include them in a suburb discussion. They are not suburbs!

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by WhoIsStanwix?

I think to limit this from taking 5 years to complete, these threads are limited to Allegheny County.

Indeed. At one a week (with a handful of combinations) it's going to take close to three years to finish up all of the suburbs. If I included every city, borough, and township in the outlying counties, it would take far longer. Many of these (for the undeveloped rural townships for sure) would be threads where no one would have anything of interest to say as well.

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by WhoIsStanwix?

I think to limit this from taking 5 years to complete, these threads are limited to Allegheny County.

I can agree with that!

Originally Posted by Pitt Chick

Meh.
I am from that area, and I see no reason to include them in a suburb discussion. They are not suburbs!

I don't agree with that. nei, the mod on Urban Planning, looked up a stat that 30% of Beaver Countians work in Allegheny County. Heck, even before WW II, pre-auto for many people, my father and a neighbor took the train from Beaver Falls to Carnegie Mellon several times a week to take night classes. The Beaver County cities function like suburbs.